Study Neugarten et al. (1961): study US 1955
- Public
- 50+ aged, whites followed 2,5 years, Kansas City, USA., 196?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 177
- Non Response
- Panel group: 16% refusal; 26% dropout after 4 interviews. Quasi panel: 17% dr.
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
4 interviews in a period of two and a half years.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Resolution and fortitude
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Content analysis of interview records by 2 independent judges (component of the Life Satisfaction Rating. LSR, Neugarten et al 1961).
5-point scale:
5. Try and try again attitude. Active
personal responsibility, takes the
bad and the good and makes the most
of it.
4. Can take life as it comes. Has no
complaint of the way life has treated him. Assumes responsibility
readily.
3. Has ups and downs. Shows a trace of
extra-punitiveness or intropunitive-
ness concerning his difficulties in
life.
2. Feels he hasn't done better because
he has not gotten the breaks. Has
worked hard but feels he never got
anywhere.
1. Talks of hard knocks which he has not mastered (extrapunitive). Blames
self a great deal (intropunitive).
Feels helpless; overwhelmed by life.